{"id":14629,"date":"2022-03-03T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2022-03-02T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:42:00","slug":"social-jet-lag-is-starting-work-later-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/social-jet-lag-is-starting-work-later-helpful\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Jet Lag: Is Starting Work Later Helpful?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Benjamin Franklin once said, <\/span>early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise<\/span><\/i>. How true is this though? A huge new study says it\u2019s more complicated than that.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pandemic lockdowns, flexible working hours, and other similar arrangements many experienced in 2020 made scientists realize that far more people have been suffering from a Social Jet Lag (SJL) than they thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

The greater the difference between the timing of everyday activities and their natural <\/span>chronotype<\/span><\/a>, the greater the social jet lag. People with SJL are always compensating for their lost sleep during weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve known so far that the socially acceptable nine-to-five working schedule is especially discriminating to people with night-oriented circadian rhythms (the so-called night owls), and benefiting early risers.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, no one expected that a staggering 46% of the survey respondents would report reducing their SJL by waking up and going to sleep later. What\u2019s more, we\u2019re talking about <\/span>15,000 <\/span>adult respondents from around <\/span>14 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, only 20% of them claim that the pandemic circumstances increased their SJL. However, this doesn\u2019t mean that people slept better.<\/span><\/p>\n

For some, the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic was enough to turn them into <\/span>corona somniacs<\/span><\/a>. Hence, countless individuals have turned to various sleep-improvement methods to manage stress levels before sleep, or to counter insomnia after returning to their offices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The study, published in the <\/span>Nature And Science Of Sleep <\/span><\/i>journal is another wake-up call for researchers to determine the possible public health benefits of work hours that accommodate different circadian rhythms.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the <\/span>Science Focus article<\/span> <\/a>points out, it\u2019s time for our attention to shift from <\/span>where<\/span><\/i> to <\/span>when<\/span><\/i> we should work. Also, more studies are needed to assess and compare the productivity of workers that don\u2019t suffer from SJL.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Benjamin Franklin once said, early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. How true is this though? A huge new study says it\u2019s more complicated than that. The pandemic lockdowns, flexible working hours, and other similar arrangements many experienced in 2020 made scientists realize that far more people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14632,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/14632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}